I don't know, our butt is still sore after they beat Spain 6-55 six years ago. And if you have a closer look to both squads, most of French pros won't be playing against England Counties because they are contractually obliged to rest for four weeks after the end of their club season.

The most interesting thing is to keep giving high quality minutes to youngsters from last two seasons U20: Jorba, Gimeno, and Zabala plus newcomers Mateu and Rábago.

There are only two really new additions born in France, Fred Quercy and Rudy Derrieux. Custoja and Guillaume were involved in last REC (Custoja got injured before playing, Guillaume only played some minutes against Georgia). And Andréa Rabago has been playing for U20s.

I'd say the French way is close to expiring and except for some guys that we try in Nations Cup (just have a look to names that were called for 2016 tournament and never came back) what we have right now in seniors, U20 and U18 is what we will have for the next 15 years. At least some of them are still very young.

As written by Canalina in the Small News topic, División de Honor will have a Valladolid local derby as its final again. VRAC beat Alcobendas 19-6 and El Salvador took its revenge over Santboiana (32-16). Final will be broadcast live by Eurosport 2 Spain... but due to its scheduling requests, it will take place at the very same time as Real Valladolid football game

The El Salvador's sponsor Hermi, a rabbit meat seller with a tender little rabbit as logo, is quite weird for we italians. Even more the twitter message with a bunny head and a big knife! https://s7.postimg.org/91xttknor/Copia_ ... _copia.jpgThe meat of rabbit is eaten also in Italy (my grandparents used to eat it quite often) but it's like an hidden habit; I've never seen in Italy an advertising about rabbit meat

Those are some very respectable figure regarding the growth of the game. The key for the game will be maintaining those growth rates for further extended periods particularly as the player numbers grow.

On FER website it appears as a fully capped game, but we all know how serious they are... There have been some tweaks in the squad for this game:

VRAC Quesos Entrepinares became Spanish champions again after beating SilverStorm El Salvador in an ugly local derby (6-15):

And La Vila gained promotion to División de Honor after beating UBU-Colina (Burgos) in a very close home and away play-off. Burgos will have another chance against Getxo, which finished 11th in División de Honor.